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boards of arkansas

By jbarket on September 26, 2024 10:03 pm

another vcv rack creation. I ended up making some chord sounds I really liked, and decided to try and make something a little less in your face than normal. this time I took a different approach to the techmo machine and instead of starting from the idea of I'm going to manipulate these pieces live, I tried to make something that could play itself in an interesting way indefinitely. the goal was less control and more steering the chaos.

there isn't enough to make this actually interesting _forever_, but as a track, I think it's a decent success. I was able to use a clock divided up so it was only hitting on phrase changes to do things like swap drum patterns, randomly (with a very low % chance) trigger eq sweeps, and change the timing of different voices. there are 6 different clock variations and a number of voices are swapped between them at random, but musically logical times.

I think there's something worth exploring here with an even slower clock division to potentially swap voices after a given number of phrases to keep it interesting over a longer time. or possibly to do something to fundamentally swap how they're modulated/triggered to slowly morph the sound.

These variations are very much appreciated.
- Devieus

I put this on and totally forgot about it until it was over. Not because I didn’t like it but because my brain just accepted it as the vibe

The world of modular and VCV rack stuff just feels like complete rocket science to me, hahahaha...
Like Princent said, this is just so easy to listen to as it keeps evolving in the background. Super interesting layering of sounds!!! Great work, I really liked this one!

This is fantastic, the synth has echoes of Carpenter or Fiedel which really had my attention.  How much of this was outside of VCV Rack?  I've not heard VCV sound this good before, it's really impressive

lament.config wrote:

This is fantastic, the synth has echoes of Carpenter or Fiedel which really had my attention.  How much of this was outside of VCV Rack?  I've not heard VCV sound this good before, it's really impressive

Thanks I really appreciate it. It’s 100% which is why the fade in and out isn’t quite right hahahaha. I started to try and multitrack this one in Ableton and then decided I was too lazy to rewire things.


Oh man, great sound design.  Those kind of drippy, chirpy sounds are awesome, great ear candy. 

Peppier than most Eno.

love this! i just downloaded vcv rack, you got me excited! this track is really rich in details and a beautiful mix. nice one! favorited

love this, zoned out and organized computer files during the 8+ min

downloading this for my next "do the dishes" track

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